about the art of Johan Strumane

The starting point for all of his drawings and paintings are selected film stills. Stills are essential to Strumane’s work. “Filming and choosing images helps me to select the right environment. Certain images inspire me. ” Herein lays the essence of Strumane’s work: to select out of the daily, endless input of images that unique image which captures the reality of one’s surroundings. Through selection and manipulation, the film loses its pictorial and visual characteristics. The atmosphere takes center stage.“I want to capture the surroundings with my camera and absorb them in me to be used/released later in a drawing or painting. It keeps fascinating me.” Johan Strumane lives en works in Ghent.